Example sentences of "[det] than the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 2 | In brief , there is enough evidence to show that the ways in which ill health and accidents arise are such that the lower socio-economic groups suffer more than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 3 | At the end of each tax year the DHSS takes the figure for your PAYE earnings and any credits , and calculates whether you have earned or had credits of more than the lower earnings limit . |
| 4 | Rate subsidies may be equally beneficial to all socio-economic groups but there is no doubt that mortgage income tax relief has benefited the upper socio-economic groups far more than the lower socio-economic groups . |
| 5 | Comparing trends in cuts of meat for 1985 to 1990 with the changes in the five years before , the price of expensive beef cuts rose more than the cheaper cuts , reversing the trend of the early 1980s . |
| 6 | This tended to affect the capital-intensive professions , such as medicine and engineering , in the form of regulation of capital spending and student numbers , rather more than the cheaper ones , but there have been direct or indirect consequences for fields such as nursing , teaching and social work as well . |
| 7 | It is an important signal that short-term politics matter more than the longer-run question of how to house the next generation . |
| 8 | A dramatic rise in fuel costs after 1973 , which affected the national brewers ' distribution costs more than the smaller regional ones ' . |
| 9 | This argument , which has been called ‘ the fair innings argument , ’ was summarised by Lockwood : ‘ To treat the older person , letting the younger person die , would thus be inherently inequitable in terms of life lived : the younger person would get no more years than the relatively few he has already had , whereas the older person , who has already had more than the younger person , will get several years more . ’ |
| 10 | Rumours that the increased duties to be levied on gin were but the beginning of a general excise , an indirect tax that would hurt the poor much more than the better-off , fuelled the crowd 's antipathy towards the government : " If we are Englishmen … let them see that wooden shoes are not so easy to be worn as they imagine . |
| 11 | Overall taxation and benefits also reduce the final income of richer groups in the population , but less than the higher rates of income tax for high earners would suggest . |
| 12 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee can not get SMP . |
| 13 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee is not entitled to SMP . |
| 14 | Note that the upper bow is 15% less than the lower . |
| 15 | However , the degree of flexibility is limited , and a dealer will rarely sell a rug for less than the lower limit associated with items of similar quality from the same group . |
| 16 | The population of Northern Ireland is about 1.5 million which is less than the larger units of local government in England or the Strathclyde region in Scotland . |